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Language Arts has been a developing class for the future, but also for the past through reading. Reading a book is how that’s possible to go back in time. This year in Language Arts class we read a book that made it possible. In our reading group also known as “Literature Circles”. In literature circles my group read the book” Blood on The River” by Elisa Carbone. After reading the book, in US History and Language Arts, we did a project called the infographic project. From this project, I grew the most in collaboration. My partners for the project were Caralina and Jacob. An infographic is a visual representation of information. During this project collaboration was the most important quality to have a group that would put this infographic together. Since, we had to divide parts of the infographic up to make it easier to finish it.
The Blood on the River plot was on how Jamestown had formed and developed. Two main characters are "Samuel Collier" and "Captain John Smith". Samuel Collier was one of the first settlers in Jamestown. He was the orphan son of dead peasants, roaming the streets of London. When he had the chance to aboard the "Susan Constant" he becomes a page for Captain Smith the third and last president of Jamestown. They make peace with Native Americans. Samuel had to stay with them for a while because of conflicts where
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For our theme, it had to be really quite hard to decide on what we wanted in the background. The title because it had to match perfectly with the infographic information listed. We tried two titles for our first draft those titles didn't go well. Also, we wanted a title that would match our background. The background was really attractive which is not good. When you read, you it will automatically focus on the background more than the information on it. We had to change the background and put in more pictures that relate to the information. So, we split the work

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